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Eventful Lives Podcast

#205. Crazy Wingsuit 200mph Skydiver - Liam Byrne

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

Eventful, True Crime, Risk, Interviews, Crime, Events, Entrepreneurship, Festivals, Sports, Life Story, Entrepreneur, Roger Woodall, Start Ups, Society & Culture, Military, Business

5 โ€ข 857 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 17 January 2024

โฑ๏ธ 63 minutes

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Summary

Liam Byrne is a professional wingsuit skydiver and mad-man.


A base-jumping British champion, Liam's adventure mindset sees him jumping off mountains, freefalling from 15,000 feet, barrel rolling at 200mph and even soaring near the edge of the atmosphere.


This is The Eventful Life of Mr Liam Byrne.


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0:00.0

I need to jump off a cliff.

0:01.5

We did a few Arctic expeditions, covered 500 kilometers with Vron team of Huskies,

0:05.3

cross country skied across the top of Norway.

0:07.3

You're on a hill or a mountain and you basically just run off the side of the mountain.

0:10.8

I showed the video to my dad and I was like, how do we do that?

0:13.2

I'm jumping out of planes just with a parachute that made you go, hold on you know,

0:16.0

I want a bigger buzz than this and actually put a wingsuit on. The wingsuit was always a plan. Almost like you're inside a jet.

0:21.3

It's always like you are a fighter jet.

0:23.3

Jumping off a cliff,

0:24.5

the rimming the risk goes up.

0:25.8

You need to appreciate that it is risky and it is dangerous.

0:28.3

It's situations where if you fall, you're not going to be okay.

0:31.4

Pretty much every problem there's a solution to as long as you react. When you're on the edge of a cliff here, you're jumping off and then you're going head forward

0:39.3

wherever you want to go.

0:40.3

100 plus miles an hour and those suits can go up to like 200 miles an hour.

0:43.3

One nine three is my top speed.

0:45.3

193 mile an hour.

0:47.3

Forward speed.

0:48.3

Is there any time when you were skydiver and when you came close to losing your life.

1:00.2

Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast.

1:03.8

I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens,

1:06.0

the world's largest sport and music festival.

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